Armigeres

Harbach, Ralph E. & Howard, Theresa M., 2007, Corrections in the status and rank of names used to denote varietal forms of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), Zootaxa 1542, pp. 35-48 : 41

Subgenus Armigeres

subalbatus subspecies chrysocorporis ( Armigeres obturbans var. chrysocorporis Hsieh & Liao, 1956 . Syntypes (Ψ, ♂, L): Amoy, China (LU).

Hsieh & Liao (1956) described and named Armigeres obturbans var. chrysocorporis from an undisclosed number of males, females and larvae, or perhaps associated larval exuviae. Although obturbans (originally Culex obturbans Walker, 1860 ) is the logotype of genus Armigeres, Thurman (1959) treated the name as a nomen dubium and relegated Ar. obturbans sensu auctorum to synonymy with the common Oriental Ar. subalbatus (Coquillett) because “the type is lost and the diagnosis of the species differs among specialists”. Consequently, Stone et al. (1959) and Knight & Stone (1977) listed obturbans as a nomen dubium and chrysocorporis as a variety of Ar. subalbatus . As noted by Lee et al. (1988), however, the holotype female of Ar. obturbans from Makassar, Sulawesi is in the National Museum of Victoria (NMM) in Melbourne, Australia. In as much as the specimen “differs from all available descriptions of species of the subgenus Armigeres ” ( Lee et al., 1988), Ar. obturbans is should be recognized as a valid species. Based on provenance, however, there is little doubt that Hsieh & Liao (1956) described chrysocorporis as a variety of Ar. subalbatus . Because chrysocorporis was introduced explicitly for a varietal entity, it has subspecific rank (Article 45.6.4) with availability from its original publication by Hsieh & Liao (1956).